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I was thinking more Captain Jack Sparrow.

I see this was started on the 29th... This was my view that morning.. sorry, I was busy. ?

A great many people do not want to have to work hard, at anything. Thinking included. Most want to live their lives in their peaceful bliss, watching TV, streamers, clicking like, swiping right. Whenever anything gets in their way they whine about how someone else should fix it. I'm not at all surprised.. any more.

Someone just walked into my wheelhouse. Let's be clear, the surveillance of United States citizens has gone on far longer than any single Presidency and has occurred regardless of which party is currently in the Oval Office. https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-07/history-electronic-surveillance-abraham-lincolns-wiretaps-operation-shamrock https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html https://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-lets-nsa-hide-and-surveil-in-plain-sight-the-intercept-reports/ It has long been speculated that the NSA can break heavy encryption algorithms already via brute force. The amount of compute power they have is incredible. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encrypted-web-and-vpn-connections/ As for the hardware manufacturer's installing surveillance technology, one only needs to look at the recent case against SuperMicro. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/new-bloomberg-report-says-backdoored-supermicro-hardware-infiltrated-major-us-telecom/ The interesting thing with the SuperMicro case is just how much pushback there was on the Bloomberg article. In many circles, it's believed that the louder the rebuttal the more likely it was to have occurred. In general, when we hear things about "flaws, glitches, bugs" its hard to not believe that these are very well hidden back doors that were intentionally put in and left to operate until some researcher finds it. Then it's denounced as a bug, a fix is put in, and that loophole is closed. A new one is usually opened somewhere else, or has been there. US Citizens entering the country can be subjected to the following. https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/01/05/new-dhs-policy-on-demands-for-passwords-to-travelers-electronic-devices/ It's easy enough for the agents to confiscate your device, image it, and send that to the NSA to be decrypted. All of this pales in comparison to the amount of information people provide to corporations, every day. Cell phones are the single greatest tracking device ever invented. People willingly attach a GPS unit to them and allow their every action to be tracked. The extension of "smart home" devices and personal assistants eroded the last barrier of privacy and still people are willing to put them in their homes. (I have them too). Every bit of the communication path your data travels is harvesting information that is used to track and model you. Your ISP has incredible amounts of data on your habits despite most web traffic now being encrypted. Meta data is an incredible source of data from which you can accurately determine the hidden data that people believe is safe via encryption. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/anonymous-data-might-not-be-so-anonymous-study-shows.html In short.. I stopped worrying about being tracked and identified a long time ago. The only way to avoid it is to go completely off the grid and leave the country. I know I am being tracked, recorded, having my data collected, and being modeled by AI/ML. I accept it. Of course I avoid things like that stupid Aging app that made the rounds the past few weeks. The concern that a Russian software developer made the program raised a lot of security concerns. It was talked about on news outlets. The focus, naturally, was on the fact that your picture could be sent to Russia. It was the wrong focus. The real focus should have been in the EULA that grants the company Which basically means that they can take your photo and use to create political misinformation ads and you can do nothing about it. But hey, its awesome to see how you'll look when older right? Sigh... the world we live in. Oh.. one more thing.. I have not watched it yet but plan to. The Great Hack on Netflix. I hear great things about it. https://www.wired.com/story/the-great-hack-documentary/?verso=true

Strangely it's the same as real life. 000 games played, 000 goals, 000 assists. ?

Thanks. (and to the others that chimed in).

Why am I under the impression that you cannot bury a contract in the AHL or via loan to another team to save against the cap? I remember that you USED to be able to bury people in the AHL for that purpose, but I thought they killed that. It seems that if you could loan a player somewhere then every team would be able to solve their cap problems by doing that wouldn't they?

When you say cut, what do you mean? Buyout?

You can pretty much get the birth year just from this.. Birthdate - first part Birth year - 18 years prior to graduation year Unless you were held back or accelerated..

I wonder.. do you score the contract worse because if a player who was signed to it was never really injured once they signed it? For example, Quick. If he had never suffered those injuries, would his performance have slipped to a point where he'd be considered for this list? It's hard to say, but if I compare to the Lucic contract I have to give a little. Lucic was not injured, he just sucks. The same with Okposo. Not that the contracts aren't still a burden.

Been waiting to post this... they should have the full single out later this week but I did this promo video for a band... I've heard the some of the other stuff and I really like it.

Honestly, what choice does anyone have? We either wait or leave right?

YES! The man is coming back to town! And some of us will get to see him in his native habitat as well? Too good to be true.

The world has survived this long with stupid people. PT Barnum didn't have Twitter.

People are bound to be highly opinionated on it. One person will say it sucks and another will say they love it. I think it has promise, although i would have preferred royal blue I think. Need to see the entirety.

See below It would appear she's specifically hired to be a 2c according to MW. She's an employee of the teams, then she's a marketer designed to create stories and appeal to a certain segment of the crowd. It's most certainly not the same as journalism even though both would share similarities. One is done to promote, the other is done to report. Now, I think we all know that some journalism is done as a promotion these days and so it might blur the lines. Either way, I hope she does a great job. I love her name. It has the right "sound" for an online personality.

I suppose its better to just let people go when they don't achieve immediate success. I wonder, if your kid didn't make the varsity team if you'd put him up for adoption.

The truth. ------------------- These days I often wonder how those who are slamming Botterill today will react if the Sabres are winning and he proves to be a successful GM. It should prove to be an interesting experience.

I think being a PPG player is impressive. It doesn't translate to being on a winning team however. Palffy is a perfect example of that. He was constantly playing on teams that were never going to go anywhere. His teams made the playoffs 3 times (The Kings, 99-00, 00-01, 01-02). Those teams lost to the Avs or Red Wings in each of those years. That said, he also played during the clutch and grab era right? So it seems like it might be even more impressive in that era.

Guess I'm full of ****. Good to know. So done with people just shitting on others around here.

He actually doesn't. He could easily split his tweet into multiple tweets.

I'm always in should my son's hockey schedule allow it. So I won't commit to buying one of the seats up front, but I will buy a ticket somehow when the time comes.

It doesn't? That's sketchy. It's completely unreasonable to expect that a GM can undo the mistakes of a prior GM in a single season and potentially even two given the time to develop talent and the limitations on what moves are possible in any given year. If Botterill were replaced at this point and the next GM had success in the following year it would be most likely that Botterill was the one who created the potential for success and the next GM lucked into the spot. The question then would be if the new GM could sustain success. Even then, Botterill's skill set might be best suited for teams that need to build and develop a talent pool whereas another GM might be more adept at managing older rosters. So, putting either of those GMs in the wrong spot would most likely lead to failure. Neither is successful in all facets of the game and neither are abject failures either. The Sabres tried a tactic, it didn't work or they were not determined to see it through. How much the clock starts over depends greatly on how much overlap there is between philosophies of the GMs and the fit of the existing resources to the new GM's vision. No fan has to accept it or like it, but that doesn't change the reality.

You'll notice that they relegated the use of Navy to the slug and the use of royal to the Buffalo and crossed swords. Those who choose to ignore history... it's part of it, it happened. You can't deny it.

This is the slow season. Once arbitration results begin coming out teams have to make the next round of moves as they shore it up for pre-season. So, I don't expect much until around the first week of August.